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The town of women

There is a town in West Africa where it's become traditional for men to leave and seek work in Italy. The women are often left behind for years, or even decades. Leila Adjovi speaks to the women of Beguedo, south-east of Burkina Faso's capital, Ougadougou.

(Photo credit: Leila Adjovi)

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5 minutes